The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
201–300
2 works
c. 235; recovered at Tura in 1941
Greek
Peri Pascha
Origen of Alexandria · c. 185 – c. 253
An argument that pascha does not mean passion, as everyone was saying, but passage — and that the lamb eaten in haste with the loins girded is the Word consumed by a soul already on the road out.
c. 245–250; recovered in Munich in 2012
Greek
Origen of Alexandria · c. 185 – c. 253
Twenty-nine sermons on the Psalms, preached at Caesarea and read for centuries as the work of someone else. On Psalm 36 he tells his congregation that the man who is angry and does not sin is rarer than the man who does not become angry at all.
301–400
1 work
c. 393–399; unexpurgated text survives only in Syriac
Greek, surviving in Syriac
Kephalaia Gnostica
Evagrius Ponticus · 345 – 399
Six centuries of dense, deliberately obscure sentences on contemplation, ninety to a hundred rather than a hundred each, so that the reader notices the gaps. Behind them is a doctrine of minds that fell from unity into bodies and will be restored to a state where even the distinction between them dissolves.
3 of 1774 works